LETTER: Bloomington Faculty Council committee expects representation, equity in IU president search
Dear Trustees Harry Gonso, Melanie Walker, MaryEllen Bishop, Donna Spears and James Morris,
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Dear Trustees Harry Gonso, Melanie Walker, MaryEllen Bishop, Donna Spears and James Morris,
In the next two weeks, the IU Student Government Congress may bring to the floor two bills that will address multicultural representation. Constitutional Resolution No. 1 and Bylaws Amendment Bill No. 1007, co-authored by Rebekah Amaya, Brian Hancock and Lindsey Batteast, will allow for the entry of historically marginalized voices into IUSG’s Congress. The frameworks for these legislative proposals were constructed through insight gained in a monthslong process of collective meetings with concerned students from multicultural organizations such as Black Student Union, Latinos Unidos at IU, Asian American Association at IU, Muslim Student Association, Women of Color Leadership Institute and more.
The will to solve climate change is growing. In 2021, we'll face a historic opportunity to craft a bipartisan legislative solution at the national level. Students' participation in this process matters. Democracy really does work, and we can make a difference in what the United States chooses to do over the next few years.
A member of IU Student Government is attempting to pass a statement in Congress on Monday to condemn China, under the guise of a human rights argument.
President Donald Trump presided over one of the most robust economies in the history of the country and oversaw the fastest economic recovery in the nation’s history. Before the COVID-19 pandemic utterly devastated the U.S. economy, overall unemployment for U.S. workers was at a 50-year low and unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic people were at all-time lows. The country also experienced consistent and commendable economic growth from 2017-19, growing more than 2% each year. 2019 was also marked by record highs in the Dow Jones, Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 stock indices.
Last week’s Indiana Daily Student column, “OPINION: What you need to remember next time you talk to a Trump supporter,” embodies why the United States is so polarized.
I am writing in appreciation of recent articles in the IDS calling on IU to more boldly confront systemic racism and promote anti-racist education within our own organizational structures. I also want to clarify and correct one statement made in two recent opinion pieces on Sept. 13 and Oct. 6, stating that the budget of the Department of African American and African Diaspora studies has been reduced by a third since 2006.
As COVID-19 infection cases are on the rise across the country and negotiations for passing a second stimulus check have been dragging on, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, has found something apparently worth speed in the Senate.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been hunkering down at my childhood home in the solidly Democratic state of New Jersey. I don’t live in a swing state.
Dear editors,
Responding to the Sept. 14 opinion column, I disagree with the suggestion that President McRobbie “ignored student needs” and that such decision-making cost him his “legacy.”
The IDS published a story Sunday regarding the Bloomington Police Department not wearing face masks when dealing with the public as is mandated for employees and residents of the city of Bloomington by local and state officials.
President McRobbie,
Dear Professor Rasmusen,
Recent, public-facing issues have exposed Indiana Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, R-9th District, as a failure to his constituents, while Democratic challenger Andy Ruff has made a strong case for himself as a leader.
A guy invited me to his fraternity house at Indiana University. It would be my chance to impress those members during rush week in September 1988. This particular house was coveted for its distinguished image and reputation. Many guys on campus eagerly wanted to get in there. I was one of them.
After Kelley School of Business professor Charles Trzcinka’s tweets came to the public’s attention, we asked Kelley students to share their opinions about his tweets specifically and the business school’s handling of racism and bigotry in general. The following are excerpts from some of the responses we received, which were edited for length and style.
In 1983, the novelist, playwright and pioneering AIDS activist Larry Kramer who died in March wrote an essay for the New York Native entitled “1,112 and Counting.” Referring to the HIV death toll at the time, Kramer was sounding the alarm and practically screaming through the page that “If this article doesn’t scare the shit out of you, we’re in real trouble.”
Dear returning IU students,
“IU is fucking gutless,” said my friend Huixin, an international Ph.D. student at IU. Or, quoting another friend’s more gentle comment, “We are disappointed at IU’s lack of reaction towards the new ICE guidelines.” She is referring to statements from IU which did not include condemnations of the policy and is expressing that it expects international students to conform to it.